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Slycer 0

For some time now I've been fed up with Opera and it's problems. Random crashes during use, crashes when I close it, the sync after it closes takes forever, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter don't display correctly, and the once blazing speed is gone too. And now a new unknown problem and I can't even open or uninstall it because of a memory leak that eats all my memory to the point that Windows becomes unresponsive.

I'm looking for an alternative. I'm currently using IE10 and love love love the speed. Everything works too. But I've always used Opera because of:

-mouse gestures (mostly for refresh, new tab)

-being able to switch between tabs with my mouse (combination of holding down the right button and scrolling)

-SpeedDial! love the speed dial feature, but I want to populate the dials with pages of my choice not have the browser make some bogus list

Does anyone have any idea which browser might fit the bill? Most important features I'm looking for are a customizable speeddial, speed, website compatibility, adblock, mouse gestures and customizable keyboard shortcuts. Chrome? I hear Firefox is far from old glory aswell, IE10 is great when it comes to speed and website compatibility but no adblock, lame speeddial, no mouse gestures. Safari maybe?

Thanks!

PS HURRAH for auto content save. IE threw me a bogus connection error and I though I lost everything I wrote.

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Slycer 0

Does anyone have any idea which browser might fit the bill? Most important features I'm looking for are a customizable speeddial, speed, website compatibility, adblock, mouse gestures and customizable keyboard shortcuts. Chrome? I hear Firefox is far from old glory aswell, IE10 is great when it comes to speed and website compatibility but no adblock, lame speeddial, no mouse gestures. Safari maybe?

And I'm using it now. Wasn't too fond of it's tracking abilities when I used it a few years ago so I wanted to download Chromium. But on their webpage i stumbled onto Chrome Canary and I installed it. Thoroughly impressed. Installed a great mouse gestures extension, Speed Dial 2 and AdBlock. Speed seems great, Facebook works as it should AFAIK, twitter too. Need to customize a few keyboard shortuts but all in all it looks great.

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Slycer 0

I've been using Opera since it was a payable application. Always told people it's the best browser around. Go check out their forums and do a search for website compatibility with Twitter, Facebook, Gmail and so forth and keep your worthless suggestions to yourself. While you're at it, do a search for RAM consumption and memory leaks. Yeah, I'm the only one with these problems. Give me a break. Opera has been going downhill for me since version 11.

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HawkMan 5,223

Honestly if you're used to Opera, there is no good alternative, Chrome doesn't measure up. FireFox, I tried it for 2+ months to see if I could use it instead of Opera after I got an issue on my other computer. it's slow compared to Opera, the 3rd party gestures, are.. well firstly third party and not as good. Annoying stuff like no grabbable border at the top when full screen. the horrible auto scrolling tab bar when lots of tabs, that can only be avoided to a certain degree. much more wasteful on the GUI space. requires a lot of extra extensions for stuff that should be built in, like an undo closed tab and closed tab list button. extension to open downloads and not save, and even then it sort of saves it first.

Then it's of course basic stuff like not remembering history to anywhere close to the degree of Opera, not fast forward and instant back, minimise tabs when click or cycle them in the order used(can "sort of" be fixed with extension).

so yeah, IF you're used to a proper advanced browser that just works and work well out of the box, there's no alternative.

Your problem probably stems from several upgrades on top of each other. clear out the opera folders, in user/appdata as well (opera folders in ll three sub folders there) as well as any opera folders under your normal user folder.

then do a full install and you should be up at full working order. and at full speed again as well.

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Slycer 0

I can't go back to Opera. The website incompatibility is just killing me. I'm trying to live with Chrome but I don't like it that much. This recent tab thing is annoying but nowhere near like the fact that apparently I can't cycle through tabs with my mouse. Opera has rightclick+scroll which is genius. Can't find an addon that would allow this in Chrome. Who the hell wants to